Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment.

Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize in 1938 "for his work with artificial radioactivity produced by neutrons, and for nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons." ...

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) left Italy in 1938 to receive the Nobel Prize for physics in Sweden. He never went back. He and his wife moved to the United States to escape Italy's increasing fascism ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles ... a back-of-the-envelope ...

Responding to the claim that intelligent life must be commonplace throughout the universe, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, “Where is everybody?” With this conundrum, ...

The choice of J. Robert Oppenheimer as recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award by the Atomic Energy Commission is as welcome as it is overdue. As director of the Manhattan project Dr. Oppenheimer ...